​​How often do you use cat utility in your console? Personally I use it very ofter when I need to print a file content. The biggest issue with cat is that the output is monochrome and it is hard to read a code.

Introducing bat.
bat (★ 9,416) - a cat clone with wings. bat supports syntax highlighting for a large number of programming and markup languages. Written in Rust.

#cli #terminal #rust

​​Azul - (★ 1,421 on GitHub) is the crossplatform high-performance desktop GUI framework written in Rust.

Azul is a free, functional, immediate mode GUI framework that is built on the Mozilla WebRender rendering engine for rapid development of desktop applications that are written in Rust and use a CSS / DOM model for layout and styling.

It worths to consider this framework next time you start writing your desktop app.

#crossplatform #rust #desktop

diskus - (★ 369) a tiny terminal utility, a minimal, fast alternative to du -sh.

diskus is a very simple program that computes the total size of the current directory. It is a parallelized version of du -sh. On author's 8-core laptop, it is about ten times faster than du with a cold disk cache and more than three times faster with a warm disk cache. Written in Rust.

#cli #terminal #utility #rust

Solr and Elasticsearch are the most popular search engines built on top of Apache Lucene. These are great tools, they do their job nicely. But the problem is they are written on Java that's why they usually consume a significant amount of server resources. Here are few resource-efficient alternatives written on Rust:

● Tantivy (★ 2,330) is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust.
● Toshi (★ 2,056) is meant to be a full-text search engine similar to Elasticsearch. Toshi strives to be to Elasticsearch what Tantivy is to Lucene.
● Sonic (★ 6,118) 🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.

#search #engine #lucene #rust